Secretery Work opens Yellowstone Park for season. Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work pressing the telegraph key in his office at Washington, which gave the signal for the opening of Yellowstone National Park – Antique Wall Art
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Secretery Work opens Yellowstone Park for season. Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work pressing the telegraph key in his office at Washington, which gave the signal for the opening of Yellowstone National Park
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Here Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work presses a telegraph key in his Washington office, and the signal opened Yellowstone National Park for the 1928 season on June 20. Yellowstone, set aside in 1872 as the first national park in the country, was administered by the Interior Department, so the ceremony linked a remote mountain landscape to a federal office across the continent. The photograph was made by Underwood & Underwood, a commercial news photography firm, and its posed quality shows how officials used such staged moments to draw public attention to the parks.
| Created / published | 1928 June 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by Underwood & Underwood. No. 64769R. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geogr.; Telegraph; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,176 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146324 |
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